Oddur Ingolfsson

Oddur Ingólfsson is full professor of physical chemistry in the University of Iceland. He obtained his PhD in the field of dissociative electron attachment from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 1996. For three years, he worked at the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Tsukuba, Japan, studying collision-induced dissociation, before moving to the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, where he developed instrumentation for high-mass detection and negative ion cluster studies. In 2004, after a few years in the private industry, Prof. Ingólfsson moved to the University of Iceland. There, he established one of the world’s leading research groups studying reactive, low-energy electron interactions with molecules relevant in as different fields as plasma processing, radiation damage, nanotechnology, and atmospheric and astrochemical processes.